Actes et Prières pour la Communion.
by ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT c. 1880
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About This Item
[Paris], c.1880. 32 pp. of elaborate hand illuminated lithographed text of the communion service with a splendid illuminated frontispiece depicting a saint at communion. Sq. 8vo., original chestnut brown morocco decorated in blind and with gilt trefoils in each corner and in each spine panel, lettered in gilt with gilt initials on the upper cover, turn ins with gilt tooled borders, endleaves of deep red watered silk, all edges gilt with silk bookmark. In excellent condition with the occasional offset.||An elaborate first communion book which were sold with the text and elementary borders of each page lithographically printed. Subsequently the plain, printed pages were all illuminated in colour including silver and gold by the owner or someone commissioned to do so, usually a woman. Perhaps surprisingly only a very few of these have survived.| A sumptuous hand-illuminated communion mass made as a first communion gift
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11140
- Title
- Actes et Prières pour la Communion.
- Author
- ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT c. 1880
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- [Paris]
- Date Published
- c.1880
- Keywords
- Book,Illustrated, Lettering & Mss
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Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...